It's fascinating to look back now at the end of Guy Boucher's tenure in Tampa Bay.

It's not just that, for the second time in as many NHL gigs, his squad has fallen off a cliff in his second year behind the bench. It's the fact that the exact same scenarios are playing out and the exact same things that sunk him there appear, at the moment, destined to sink him here with the Ottawa Senators.

Consider:

Both times, Boucher was the first head coaching hire by a young general manager;

He led both teams to within a game of the Stanley Cup final in his first season;